My Saturday

I had a very good Saturday yesterday with Brandon, I thought I should share it! We woke up, ate some breakfast, spent a couple hours in the morning reading on the couch together. He finished his book and I chugged through my book fairly far. (By the way, I hate the book I'm reading, but I told myself I'd read it! lol It's New Moon, the second in the Twilight series). Anyway, then we got ready to go out.

We had an early lunch at Jason's Deli, a yummy organic deli restaurant with some great sandwiches! After lunch we went to see Transformers 2. I liked it! Brandon wasn't incredibly impressed, but I'm fairly easy to entertain. After the movie we went shopping and finally bought some side table lamps to go with our news bedroom set! Thank goodness!

We came home, ate dinner, hung out for a bit, then headed to Fort Benning for a Fourth of July celebration! Yeah, a week early, but it was fun. They had a fair thing going on, with games and booths with fair food. We had fun! They had bands playing, and at the end was the Edwin McCain Band (who sing "I'll Be", you probably know it). We watched them. It was awesome! And fireworks were shot off at the end too.

So we had tons of fun, I'm glad we went. :D

Friday Weigh In

June 5: 133.8
June 12: 131.6
June 22: 134.4

June 26: 133.2

I'm going back down! lol. We haven't eaten out since the in-laws left, though tomorrow we're going to lunch at a good restaurant, and then Sunday we have dinner with friends... but it isn't every day. I've also started to work out more again! My knee has been hurting, but it's good for me. :) So yeah, back on track with the weight loss.

In other news, I thought it would be appropriate to include here that three famous people died this week! Yesterday, Farrah Fawcett died of cancer at age 62, and then later in the day Michael Jackson was found unconscious and died in the hospital. He was 50 years old. Wow! I kind of feel sorry for Farrah Fawcett, since she was suffering for awhile and her passing was overshadowed by Michael Jackson's sudden death. RIP you two! Ed McMahon also died on June 23. I never even heard of his death until yesterday, which is sad, since he was a star in his own right. So RIP Ed :)

I've volunteered a couple times this week. It was boring, haha. I just feel burnt out. This summer was supposed to be my summer, not working, doing what I want, and writing, reading, you know? So I cut my volunteering down to one morning a week. They keep asking me to come in... but I mean, if they aren't paying me, I'm not going to spend all my time there, right?

As for writing... I've been reading writing books. I bought myself a fountain pen (should arrive in a couple days!), and plan on starting to write by hand soon. I found that I just can't type up a story unless I have it written on paper. I write my best stuff on paper. The bad part is that my wrist is hurt (doctor said I might have arthritis), so it hurts when I write. I put Icy-Hot on it, it helps a bit, but it still hurts. So that's something I'll have to push through!

Anyway, time to go do some work here. ;)

Monday Weigh In?

Whoops! I forgot my Friday weigh in!! I've been so busy!

So... June 22: 134.4

Ok, I expected that... I've been eating out a lot, and not working out at all. And I feel bloated. :P

Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day! I need to call my dad, but I'll do that later, since it's only 9am here, meaning it's 7am where he is. :) Brandon's family is still here, so we're spending Father's Day with them!

Anyway, I've had a fairly good weekend. Friday, of course, was the grand opening of the museum. I saw Colin Powell and shook Gen. Hal Moore's hand! (We Were Soldiers, if you don't know). I still need to post pictures, so just wait a bit for it. They also had a great show with paratroopers and BlackHawk helicopters. It was fun! I left before I really had to do anything for the museum, I just was worried since there were so many people. They keep calling me to volunteer, it's becoming a full time job, practically!

Saturday we took the family to the museum. We spent nearly 3 hours there! The exhibits are awesome and very informative. We then had lunch at Jason's Deli (yum), went to the grocery store real quick, and came home. We watched Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was a great movie. Then had dinner (we made chili) and played Scrabble.

Today we are having a barbecue, swimming a bit, going to the Civil War Naval Museum, and I dunno what else! But I'm having a good time. :)

Life!

Ok, brandonchantal.shutterfly.com is nearly up and running!! I have uploaded all my photos onto Shutterfly (finally... that only took 4 days!), and now I need to attach them to the website. So keep checking back and I'm sure I'll get it done eventually.

Yesterday, I did training on the rifle simulator at the museum. It's the same program that they use for soldiers in training. It's a virtual program that uses real M4's, though just with lasers. It's fun! They want me to work there basically full time - not anywhere else in the museum. I'm not cool with that, since I really want to do tours. Brandon laughs because he said he would do the simulator all day. That's Brandon, though!

Speaking of Brandon, he graduates Infantry Officer Basic Course today! So he is officially an Infantry Officer. I'll be sure to get pics up on Shutterfly, and maybe clip one onto here (though they come out wrong, I'm still sort of sorting that out). We picked up his parents yesterday in Atlanta... long, boring drive to Atlanta... and ate dinner at Cheddar's, which is a yummy restaurant. Now we are waiting here for Brandon to either come home from work, or us to just go to the graduation, which starts at 2 this afternoon.

I now need to cut up a cantaloupe and do my hair. :)

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I have finally found a photo hosting website I am comfortable with! It's Shutterfly, and I'm in the long process of uploading all my photos. You can check it out at brandonchantal.shutterfly.com. Don't expect anything. lol. It's not done!

I spent the weekend hanging out with Brandon. We really didn't do much! He left Saturday night to play Axis and Allies with some friends, so I hung out at home. We watched some movies. Yesterday we went shooting, which was fun, but then it rained! Sucks.

Wow, I felt like I had more to say... oh, I'm officially out of ROTC. My medical board came through. It's done now! I feel relieved that I can move on for sure now. Thank goodness.

Friday Weigh In and Photos!

June 5: 133.8
June 12: 131.6

Hm, that's good! I think I've been eating less and I know I have been working out way more, so that is probably how I lost some weight. I don't weigh myself any other days than Friday, so I know I'm taking a chance, as I should be averaging the weeks total. But you know weight can fluctuate day to day. So I've been keeping fairly average! Tuesdays and Thursdays are my intense workout days, where I do Yoga and then Spin classes. It's tough, but I can feel me getting stronger and leaner. Maybe I'll reach that 125 goal sooner than planned!

On my computer, the photos I post cut off halfway through. Does that happen to you? I use Photobucket for all my photos, and am in the process of putting them all up there. It just takes forever! I'm trying to weed through some and take down the ones I don't like. Here's the url: http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y259/HappyKatcha/

I might be switching web photo hosting sites, though. Photobucket has been kind of pissing me off lately. So I'm on the search for the perfect one! I'll keep you updated!